Hi,

For interest,

http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/index.html?javax/transaction/UserTransaction.html
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/transaction/package-summary.html

UserTransaction.commit() also returns void.
They do however define exception classes.

Cheers
Pieter

On 29/11/2015 01:46, Dylan Millikin wrote:
> Hey Jonathan,
>
> This part of the code base may need some extra thinking. There are
> currently ways of using fail-retry strategies provided by TinkerPop for
> cases where commits generate exceptions (Transaction.submit()). This is
> quite a common occurence actually, think Titan for instance. So implicitly,
> TP is expecting failing commits to throw exceptions.
> Although, like you mention, there are no pre-defined exceptions. You can
> either specify which exceptions to retry on or retry on all exceptions.
> This has some drawbacks that I plan on highlighting via a couple of JIRA
> tickets (it's getting late here so I'll be adding those tomorrow) but the
> main gist of it is that there's a lack of consistency in this area and
> things tend to get very implementation specific.
>
> If you've got any ideas and suggestions we're all ears.
>
> Cheers,
> Dylan.
>
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan Ellithorpe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on an implementation of TP3 on system that uses optimistic
>> concurrently control. In this system a transaction commit is not guaranteed
>> to succeed. It appears, though, that since Transaction.commit() returns
>> void, and there are no pre-defined exceptions that express a commit
>> failure, the Transaction interface was not designed to support occ. Is this
>> correct? Are there plans in the future for supporting OCC? This could
>> potentially mean some non-trivial changes to the unit tests...
>>
>> Jonathan
>>

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